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DIY your blog

(Beijing Today)
Updated: 2006-11-22 09:11



"Did you blog today?" Has become a common greeting today. Writing a blog
is routine for more and more people. Regardless of your motivation for
blogging, whether you do it to make money, or enjoy the passion of
writing and sharing knowledge or a little bit of both, traffic is the
lifeblood of your blog.


If you want more hits, read on.

How to DIY your blog

Add music

Music is a good way to make your blog come alive. The readers of your
blog can listen to the music as soon as they open the page. There are two
ways to add music. The first is, some blog hosts will provide a music
service for bloggers; second is to write grammar to add the music. Take
MySpace as an example:

First, go to MySpace and login to your MySpace profile.

Once you're in your profile, click on the Music link. You'll be taken to
the MySpace music area, where there is a sma box of drop-down search
menus you can use to find just the right MySpace background music that
you're looking for. All musical genres are represented here; you can
search by artist or style. Once you find the artist you're looking for,
click on the artist's picture or name in the search results. If it is an
official MySpace music page, there should be a red header across the top
of the page with the words 'MySpace Music'. You should see a big gray box
with music selections playing or ready to be played at the artist's
MySpace profile. In order to add this artist's song to your MySpace
profile, click on the 'Add' button right under your selected song. You'll
be asked if you really want to add this song to your MySpace profile, and
if the answer is yes, then click 'Add Song to Profile now', when people
click on your MySpace profile, they'll get a nice bit of MySpace
ackground music.

Add background pictures

The blog hosts will provide dozens of templates for your blog. You can
always change the background pictures. Take MySpace as an example:


Browse through the archive and pick a background you like. Then click the
image and a popup window will open with a preview of the background. If
you like what you see, click 'View or download this image'. Save the
background to your hard disk: right click the image and choose save
image, then select a file location and click save. You can save anywhere
you like.

Secondly, upload your image to a certain websites, such as Imageshack.us.
Select the image you just saved in the previous step and click "Open",
then click "Host it", and you're done uploading. Now you will see a bunch
of links. Copy-paste the link at "Direct link to image".

How to add a clock

Do you want to add a clock to your blog? Only four steps required:

First step: open www.clocklink.com

Second step: click 'clock galley' and choose one of the clocks you like.

Third step: click 'View HTML tag' and find the code of the grammar.

Fourth step: paste the code in the customized region.










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